There is an interesting post today on A VC about the evolution of blogging. I concur with the author
when he states that he hates the term ‘Blogging 2.0′, but for lack of a
better term I’ll roll with it.

His point is that conversations are occurring in the
microblogosphere that may or may not make their way back to the
traditional blogosphere, and in turn are not picked up by blog
aggregators like Techmeme. It’s an interesting issue. Web applications
such as Twitter (when it’s not down) or Pownce are bringing our
conversation much closer to real-time. In comparison, traditional blogs
are not as responsive to real-time events.

It begs the question of if and how we track these scattered 140
character bits of conversation. Is it worthwhile, or do we wait until
the conversation filters back to the blogosphere, and thus to
aggregators like Techmeme?

My final thought is that I am convinced that we are moving into the
world of citizen-journalism 2.0. Web applications like Twitter, Skype,
Brightkite, YouTube, and many others provide the means to mobilize our
news collection. As-it-happens microjournalism is here. The question is
no longer how to capture an event, but rather how to collect events
scattered across applications and communities.